Advanced Development Technologies

Describes how to develop add-in applications that extend a host application's functionality.

Provides information about using Directory Services and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

Discusses asynchronous programming features in the .NET Framework.

Describes how to create custom components and how to extend design-time support.

Explains the Code Document Object Model (CodeDOM), which enables the output of source code in multiple programming languages.

Describes a set of managed types in the System.Reflection.Emit namespace that allow a compiler or tool to emit metadata and Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) at run time and optionally generate a portable executable (PE) file on disk.

Introduces expression trees, which are tree-shaped data structures that can be used to represent language-level code in the form of data.

Discusses how the garbage collector manages memory and how you can program to use memory more efficiently.

Explains the concept of a runtime host, which loads the runtime into a process, creates the application domain within the process, and loads and executes user code.

Describes interoperability services provided by the common language runtime. Also provides links to information about incorporating COM components into your .NET Framework application.

Discusses establishing communication between objects that run in different processes.

Shows how to use Internet access classes to implement both Web-based applications and Internet-based applications.

Explains how to get access to type information at run time by using reflection.

Describes the use of reliability-oriented attributes such as HPA and ReliabilityContract, and discusses best practices for writing reliable code.

Discusses XML serialization.

Explains the runtime support for threading and how to program using various synchronization techniques.

Describes how to configure and register serviced components for access to COM+ services.

Supplies syntax, code examples, and usage instructions for each class in the .NET Framework namespaces.

Provides links to information about standard application development tasks in the .NET Framework.

Provides information about the classes and services in the .NET Framework that facilitate secure application development.